11.05.16
Care UK receives 18 new prison contracts
New contracts to provide health services at 13 adult prisons, four young offenders’ institutes and an immigration detention centre have been awarded to Care UK
The contracts, which started on 1 April and will run until 2021, mean that Care UK is responsible for services including primary healthcare, mental healthcare, audiology, podiatry, physiotherapy, dentistry, optometry and pharmacy services.
Care UK already holds contracts for seven adult prisons and five young offenders’ institutes, and will now provide care at 18 more institutions, including Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre in Oxfordshire. The total number of establishments it provides healthcare in is now 30.
Ross Dowsett, deputy managing director for primary care and health in justice service director at Care UK, said: “Our priority is to deliver the highest standards of patient care and we’ll be working closely with our commissioners and partners to develop positive health and wellbeing for the people who we’re responsible for providing healthcare to.”
He added that Care UK has developed a special Wellbeing Approach to meet the specific difficulties of prison healthcare.
In total, Care UK will now provide care to more than 22,000 inmates, a quarter of the prison population.
Under another NHS prisons’ contract with The Phoenix Partnership, prisoners are allowed to register with general medical services.
New contracts from 1 April
London
- HMP Wormwood Scrubs
Oxfordshire
- HMP Bullingdon
- HMP Huntercombe
- Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre
Staffordshire
- HMPYOI Drake Hall
- HMP Stafford
- HMYOI Werrington
- HMPYOI Swinfen Hall
- HMPYOI Brinsford
- HMP Featherstone
Worcestershire
- HMP Hewell
- HMP Long Lartin
- HMP Oakwood
West Yorkshire
- HMP Leeds
- HMP Wakefield
- HMP Wealstun
East Midlands
- HMP Foston Hall
- HMP Sudbury
Contracts re-commissioned from 1 April
Buckinghamshire
- HMYOI Aylesbury
- HMP Grendon
- HMP Spring Hill
Existing contracts
Staffordshire
- HMP Dovegate
London
- HMP Brixton
- HMYOI Feltham
- HMP Pentonville
Suffolk
- HMP Highpoint
- HMPYOI Hollesley Bay
- HMPYOI Warren Hill
Essex
- HMPYOI Chelmsford
Isle of Wight
- HMP Isle of Wight
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